His mom wants doctors to find a way to stop his severe reactions to the body spray.

Freedom High School's request that students refrain from using Axe Body Spray might not be necessary.

Rosa Silk of Bethlehem Township, who said her son Brandon has a life-threatening allergy to the popular spray, said Thursday she has "no intentions" of sending him back to the school unless doctors find a way to subdue his allergy.

"He's doing great at home" Silk said, explaining that the 15-year-old was home-schooled for part of last year. "The atmosphere and the air at school, he just can't tolerate it."

Brandon, a 15-year-old freshman, first started having allergic reactions in middle school, his mother said. He realized he would break out in hives every time he was around a specific smell in the hallway: Axe Body Spray.

"It's robbing me of my childhood," he said Thursday night. "I can't be with the people I want to be [with] — besides my family. I don't get the experience of being a kid because I have to go through such a crazy thing at such a young age."

Silk said the family took a bottle of Axe to doctors in Philadelphia, who left Brandon in a room with paper towels sprayed with Axe. She said they recorded a change in his skin texture and a decline in lung capacity after he was exposed to it.

Brandon was home-schooled for the remainder of his eighth-grade year but wanted to start ninth grade at Freedom, his mother said. Though the school was aware of his condition and asked students to consider it, the air became more saturated with Axe as the year went on, Rosa Silk said.

Some students were "reckless" with the spray, Freedom junior Giovanni Suvire said Wednesday. They used it on other students or simply sprayed it into the air.

"They didn't just use it to keep themselves smelling good," Suvire said. "They used it for fun."

About two weeks ago, Brandon had a severe reaction at school for the second time in a matter of weeks. His throat began to swell and a school nurse used an EpiPen to stop him from going into anaphylactic shock, according to Freedom Principal Michael LaPorta Jr. An ambulance took Brandon to the hospital.

In response, the school sent an automated message to parents and asked students to stop using Axe.

Brandon said he must constantly be on the alert when he's away from home because a reaction could be fatal.

"It's always on my mind. I always have to be aware, because the one time I'm not aware, it could be the worst one and I could die."

Dealing with the allergy and worrying every day about her son has been "horrible," Silk said.

"It pretty much altered his whole way of living," she said. "I feel like I aged a hundred years in two years."

Silk said she is hoping that doctors can figure out which Axe ingredient Brandon is allergic to and find a way to make him tolerant of the spray.

Axe released a statement Wednesday through its parent company, Unilever, saying the safety and well-being of those who use its products is always its first priority.

"We were made aware of a report about an allergic reaction, and we are looking into the matter," the statement said.

Axe products have an 800 number on the back of their packaging that consumers can call if they have problems, according to the statement.

Though Brandon won't be going back to Freedom any time soon, his mother said she appreciates the school's efforts to reduce what one student described as a "sea of Axe."

"The school has been phenomenal," Rosa Silk said. "I feel that it was just like an extended family."